The first panel is about databases in this Cloud era. The panel is moderated by Jason Hoffman from Joyent. Panelists include Tasso Argyros of Aster Data Systems, Jeff Hammerbacher from Cloudera, Doug Judd from Zvents, Avinash Lakshman from Facebook and Geir Magnusson Jr. from Gilt Groupe. Some of the takeaways from the panel include

RDBMS are dumb about disks

People who use databases should rethink how they use databases

Ease of use is important. Adding capacity should be about adding commodity boxes

Scalability means scale out and scale in. Systems should be able to support it

Having the right software for the cloud is important

Facebook’s largest cluster has 160 nodes

Before putting your data inside these systems, think if it is ok to do it

The bottleneck for distributed applications is the network

Use software in a smart way to overcome the network bottleneck

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Director, OpenShift Strategy at Red Hat. Founder of Rishidot Research, a research community focused on services world. His focus is on Platform Services, Infrastructure and the role of Open Source in the services era. Krish has been writing @ CloudAve from its inception and had also been part of GigaOm Pro Analyst Group. The opinions expressed here are his own and are neither representative of his employer, Red Hat, nor CloudAve, nor its sponsors.